swap stories
idiom
informal
: to tell stories to each other
We spent some time swapping stories about our college days.
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Each evening at 6 p.m. sharp, the exclusive cadre that are the guests of Capella gather to rub elbows and swap stories.
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Christopher Cameron, Robb Report, 22 May 2025
Music lovers and musicians come by to hang out and swap stories.
—Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 1 May 2025
Here on the southern end of Virginia's Eastern Shore, kids shuffle down the pier with fishing poles and Cokes, wispy-haired men swap stories outside the hardware store, and the whole place seems to tuck in for the night not long after the sun goes down.
—Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 16 Apr. 2025
Lingering for hours — to swap stories, poke fun at each other and unwittingly draw an audience — is a core component of the group, which, in two decades, has never been named.
—Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2025
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Christopher Cameron, Robb Report, 22 May 2025
Music lovers and musicians come by to hang out and swap stories.
—Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 1 May 2025
Here on the southern end of Virginia's Eastern Shore, kids shuffle down the pier with fishing poles and Cokes, wispy-haired men swap stories outside the hardware store, and the whole place seems to tuck in for the night not long after the sun goes down.
—Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 16 Apr. 2025
Lingering for hours — to swap stories, poke fun at each other and unwittingly draw an audience — is a core component of the group, which, in two decades, has never been named.
—Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2025
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“Swap stories.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/swap%20stories. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.
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